Improvement in lacing-hooks



` plan of thehook'when fastened in position.

` terial upon which it is fastened. y l Themanipulation employed byme inmak ling the lacing-hook is first to cut a fiat blank,

slightly curved at c, and the prongsd bentfrom` Vback ofthe hook.

EDWARD MAYNZ, Or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

`llvlPRovEn/IENT, VIN LAclNe-HOOKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,646, November14,1817.

dated December Q5, 1877 application'led i To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD MAYNZ, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, havefinvented an Improvement in LacingHooks, of which the following is a Specification The nature of myinvention is best explained by reference to the drawing, in which-Figure lis a perspective view Of the completed article. Fig. 2 is a planOf the blank from which the hook" Vis shaped. Fig. 3 is a Fig. 4; is aplan of the portions Of `the prongs" which are passed through thematerial` to which the hook is attached and clinched on the under`surface thereof, and Fig. "5 is a vertical sectionthrough the hook andthe mashaped as shown in Fig. 2, fromV a thin sheet of brass, or someOthersoft-metal composition, and theirl to shape it by suitablemechanism to the complete article shown in Fig.` 1, con-V sisting of thehook c, Somewhat rounded Onthe Surface of section b by being struck upthe portion c, substantially at right angle therewith, and the "centralsection of portion cis bent to form one of the prongs at or near the Infastening the lacing-hobk in position, its y prongs are passed throughthe material to which it is attached, and bent Over and clinched On theOpposite side, as shownin Figs. 3 and 5:

The economy in material and construction of this lacing-hook is toomanifest for coin-v ment, and therein lies its advantages over articlesfor similar use on the market. It is adapted for anyof the purposes towhich such hooks can beapplied, its principal use being` as a fasteningfor boots and shoes.

In Fig. I6 I show a modification of my invention, in which the hook andprongs, instead l of being struck up77 from a hat blank, aref shapedfrom wire without departing from the spirit of my invention, which,broadly, is a hook provided with elinching-prongs.

I claim- A lacing-hook blank struck up from sheet. metal, one end Ofwhich constitutes the hook fastening-prongs of nearly equal length, and

an intermediate shorter prong, all substantially as and for the purposeset forth. A Y

` fEDwD. MAYNZ.

`Witnesses: p y Y F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, A. J OETTINGER.

portion, the Opposite end having twoouter

